Hindustan Times: New Delhi: Sunday, June 25, 2017.
The cases
were registered on the complaint of Rahul Sharma, founder of Road Anti
Corruption Organization (RACO) who used RTI documents to get bills submitted by
Bansal’s firm related to a construction work in north west Delhi’s Bakoli
village.
Lieutenant
Governor Anil Baijal has asked the principal secretary (vigilance) to take
necessary action as per rules in a plea seeking prosecution sanction against
chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in an alleged PWD scam.
The
development comes in wake of an application filed at the L-G’s office on June 7
by Rahul Sharma, seeking prosecution sanction against Kejriwal and the
executive engineer (PWD) under the Prevention of Corruption Act in the alleged
PWD scam pertaining to three FIRs.
“A
representation dated June 7, 2017 from Rahul Sharma, (Founder), RACO, Ghonda,
Delhi, has been sent for necessary action as per rules,” the L-G’s special
secretary R N Sharma said in a written communication to principal secretary
(vigilance) Ashwani Kumar.
Last month,
the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) had filed three separate FIRs on a complaint
filed by Sharma, founder of Roads Anti-Corruption Organisation (RACO), alleging
irregularities in the grant of contracts for roads and sewer lines in Delhi in
2015-16.
One of the
FIRs was registered against the company of Kejriwal’s late brother-in-law
Surender Kumar Bansal. The Delhi CM has not been named in any of the FIRs.
Being a
serving chief minister, the prosecuting agencies need to get prior sanction of
the Lieutenant Governor before it could formally begin a probe against
Kejriwal, officials said.
Senior Aam
Aadmi Party leader Ashutosh condemned the direction, saying L-G was allegedly
acting on the behest of the BJP. The AAP leader argued that no evidence has
been provided by Sharma against the chief minister in his complaint.
“Rahul Sharma
files frivolous complaints against AAP on a regular basis. Now he has sought
prosecution sanction against the chief minister though he has no connection
with the case whatsoever,” Ashutosh said.